skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you could extend this argument to include the philosophy that databases should be glorified key-value stores, and semantics should only be handled by application code.

I think a key point in the article is that "models become obsolete faster than we’d like".

On the other hand, you could argue that it's simply necessary to put in the effort to keep the data model up to date with your current needs, through API versioning, database migrations, etc.

Honestly I'm not sure which approach is less messy; maybe it depends on the team.
Say you tell me you want a red sphere. Taken at face value, you show a prejudice for red sphere's and discriminate against all other coloured shapes.

We've all had to dance that dance with ChatGPT by now, where you ask for something perfectly ordinary, but receive a response telling you off for even daring to think like that, until eventually you manage to formulate the prompt in a way that it likes with just the right context and winner vocabulary + grammar, and finally the damned thing gives you the info you want without so much as any gaslighting or snarky insults hiding in the answer!

It doesn't understand racism, it simply evaluates certain combinations of things according to how it was set up to do.
Ukraine has significant population that speaks Russian and consider themselves Ukrainians.
I've heard the second paragraph described as:

Bad architects make decisions. Good architects make deciding harmless
> The residents group even stopped a comically ugly post-war Tesco from being demolished, pressuring Westminster City Council to designate the Dean Street store an ‘Asset of Community Value’.

Seems like there's a conflict here between the interests of the residents and the general public. I can't imagine eating out every night is something affordable or desirable for the locals.
No, the complete opposite of that is when you only allow white men to do things - not when you attempt to give everyone the opportunity and don’t have a good way to choose the optimal one amongst them. And that opposite setup is, I’m sure you know, exactly how things worked in most of the west until relatively recently. The overwhelming impression is that because the current setup is closer to overall optimum and further from an optimum for white men, people see it as a net loss.
But Rocket Lab is based in New Zealand, and NZ isn't part of AUKUS...

(disclosure: I work at Rocket Lab, but not on anything to donwith this.)
Looks cool, but pretty much only practical for nuts. If a bolt was threaded into anything of size, I guess you could heat up the head of the bolt. Maybe it would transfer down the length of the bolt sufficiently? Doesn't seem likely though.
Not really a problem but some buses and digital displays where I live in Austria skip umlauts and just use the 26 letter spelling ae rather than ä or strasse rather than Straße.
Well, the “acknowledge and mark” phrase gets at the statement—That if the org thought objective X was authentic existential goal, it behooves them to understand how an applicant understands and would configure into that plan. (I have no claim about its efficacy. The highly-structured nature of the statement is a head-scratcher. I’m here watching the fallout with everyone else.)

I hasten to restate that is my understanding of the premise, in the spirit of collectively untangling the causal chain here. This is incendiary stuff on HN!
> "They say [the car] hit so hard, it exploded the bench," explained Misty Nicholson, McGill's mother.
It is probably much more doable, and less hostile, to traffic calm streets so that people cannot get up to such speeds, and also to reduce the necessity of driving so that there is no car to crash in the first place.
Britain led the way to abolishment of slavery.
> Petraeus revealed that Qatar has hosted the Hamas leadership at the request of US

Sure. Hence why I qualified my statement with "continuing." Doha hosting Hamas in '17 was fine. Doha hosting them after October 7 is fair to criticise.
Or any direction? I couldn't tell what the direction of Google was if I had to.
I wouldn't classify murdering 30k+ civilians (15k+ children), dropping bombs on entire families, being caught[0] executing civilians with drones in plain view, having israeli holocaust scholars and survivors describing israel's actions as "textbook-case of genocide"[1][2], the world seeing israel as an illegitimate pariah state, as "winning", but you do you.

[0] "Note that this footage permits no room for "it was a mistake," showing repeated, specifically-targeted strikes on the unarmed and even wounded. The sort of behavior the ICJ explicitly forbid in the genocide ruling against Israel." https://x.com/Snowden/status/1770936325996155290

[1] Gaza 'Textbook Case of GENOCIDE' - Holocaust Scholar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUeEnjULHe0

[2] Holocaust Survivor Tells Me: Israel Is Committing Genocide - w. Stephen Kapos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4PFmz4MNdg
My two Jabberwocky translations:

https://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/gayabōkin.html

https://www.kylheku.com/~kaz/bľabovluk.html
If everyone is well fed and feeling secure, it feels good to be generous.

When folks are hungry and/or insecure, it feels like taking from their and their children’s mouths and giving to their competition.

And there are essentially fractal levels of division possible.

And so the wheel turns.
When you say JavaScript, are you talking about runtime or language?
Lowering the speed limit where there are sidewalks next to cars driving seems to work well in Europe. But that also requires policing of those speed limits so they are not considered mere suggestions by drivers.
Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen. If anything, Paul Allen was the instigator.
Same here. chromium, blank, firefox animating fine.
All newspapers get things wrong some of the time. With the best of intentions and best of skills, it ... just happens because the world is just too complex to always be 100% accurate. Of course they should strive to be accurate all of the time, but we also need to be realistic. This applies even more to warzones.

What matters is how often this happens and what the response is when it happens. As far as I know, Al Jazeera is not significantly worse than anyone else here. There's a difference between "spreading misinformation" and "being wrong every once in a while".

The problem with sites like "honest reporting" is that they take these incidents, completely ignore (or outright defend) all the types their side has been wrong on this type of stuff, and then construct a narrative that "proves" that "the other side" is merely a malicious cluster of evil that seeks to spread evil for evil's sake. This is exactly the type of dehumanizing hyper-partisanship that got us in this mess in the first place.
> How heavily has RT been censored in the USA?

It hasn't been. Probably more accurate to state that when it was carried on cable media they broadcast a bowdlerized version. Al Jazeera did the same thing when it was carried by cable/satellite in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_America

This was the RT channel you're probably thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_America
The overlong lookup can also be written without a memory lookup as

0x10000U >> ((0x1531U >> (i*5)) & 31);

On most current x86 chips this has a latency of 3 cycles -- LEA+SHR+SHR -- which is better than an L1 cache hit almost everywhere.
Aside: calling the Māori language "Te Reo Māori" in English is unhelpful performative posturing. Yes, that's what the language is called in Māori, but we don't call Chinese "Zhongwen" or 中文.
My experience with frontend people is that they don't think twice about adding random libraries they just found that was released month ago. Also their projects are unmaintainable after one year, but they are long gone by that time and new developers arguing that they need to rewrite everything.

I really hate small libraries and in my projects I tend to rewrite lots of trivial stuff, but that keeps me comfortable.
i made a simple app to print todo lists since i use mostly pen and paper to keep track of tasks

printodos.com

it’s open source
Israel's war aims have transparently been about both returning the hostages and removing Hamas from power.
It's an article about bollards and how they stop vehicles from hitting pedestrians. Fences to keep people out of places where they can easily kill themselves is very important, but doesn't have anything to do with the article. A trend I see on Twitter is that someone will bring up an important issue and comments will highlight that it's very important, but what about this other thing that is somewhat related but also unrelated. Not saying that you intended to do that here, but be aware that fences provide no security against cars and that the whole point of bollards is to stop cars from killing pedestrians who are not on the road.
Funny that this is coming up. About 30 minutes after this post, a bollard played a pivotal role in the currently ongoing Formula 1 race
Revamping Plasma Mobile Navigation Gestures
So you don't have real security for operators, is what you're saying.

Containers are not, and will never be, a secure isolation boundary.
Yes, an explicit bias in favour of students more likely to be useful to the university.
I bet not shoving ads into your OS is probably a really nice security first approach. Think they'll remove those? HA!
I used to work for Sun. As for Cray, did you know that Cray used AMD chips on many of their supercomputers? I bet you didn't.

As for the rest of it, you think that forcing arch rivals to collaborate on their key products, in other words, reducing competition, is the best way to help the consumer?

Good luck in your Marxist-Leninist fantasy world.
The opinion of Israel’s majority about the government would usually be measured by elections, not social media.
a great blog on programming languages: https://matt.might.net/articles/
> I think the question is how are you meeting the hiring manager?

In each and every single time I met a hiring manager, that took place after the early interview rounds where the bulk of applicants were filtered out.

In some cases, the hiring manager was the very last interview.

To me, claiming that meeting the hiring manager is somehow the key step to get hired is like stating that the key step to get hired is to not be rejected.
https://theconversation.com/how-israel-continues-to-censor-j...
I came here to mention this book also. I learned a lot. He explores a mind numbing number of properties which are potentially in the mix. They depend in turn on the properties of the source material. (Authors play all kinds of games with meter and structure and arbitrary constraints - and preserving some can come at the cost of deprecating others.)

One warning: among the genuinely deep insights, Hofstadter can occasionally come off as smug and self-congratulatory about his own poetic genius. I found this rather off-putting - and surprising since I found the tone of G.E.B. rather more like enthusiastic play.
This is part of the conversation.

The old adage "women and children first" is there for a reason.

If you want to know why go read the reports of the evacuation of the costa concordia. Read about who panicked and who had to stop them.

Go read the reports on multi aircraft incidents. A feature of many of them are bad practices that have been normalized and compounded till there is an incident. The Texas air show crash is a great example of this sort of behavior particular to a local air port.

GO read about the last dual in the US. Look at pictures of Germans' circa WWI (scars)... Our history is brutal, bloody and driven by conflict. The violent crime is nearing all time lows and rather than be shocked that we have managed to get it that far down, we lament why it isnt lower.
Sorry, I'm not keen on measuring excellence by polling web search engines. Is this how you choose what web pages to visit? You grab a top five from somewhere and only use those, except when you drop by here?

I'm more interested in your claim about "usable for any application". How come all those fancy ML types and learned academics refuse to use Python for the core computations they perform when they try to invent witchcrafts, instead opting for C, C++ and Fortran libraries?
I have that book! Somewhere ...
Who is going to tell this person about stroads?
One happy side effect of the response to terror attacks in the UK is that we've become quite good at bollards.

For example, the Scottish Parliament has a number of benches and ornamental ponds: https://maps.app.goo.gl/biSpACmL1fSihqPL7. Or there's the classic ARSENAL: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xopzGGu8rUdWaTCe8.

We're even getting better at providing more than merely paint as protection for cyclists: https://maps.app.goo.gl/2VT3SbjrK27w72826.
Which is why they are so dangerous for pedestrians, even though nothing bad happens most of the time.
Prompt engineering is hard, and not a one size fits all solution.
> that print things you don't like

But that the whole point. It's not just that Israel "don't like it". It's false claims.

> aren't sufficiently loud about retractions

And what if there are no retraction? only if the backlash is big enough? Like in the case where there were no hundreds of dead in a direct bombing but a 50 dead in a failed PIJ rocked on hospital:

https://archive.is/r6noB

and the same version today:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/16/israel-ha...
Rest assured, woke politics in the form of support for/opposition to immigration of people with the wrong skin color is a major issue in all Scandinavian countries.
A cool complex one would be burpees.
Bollards are good at preventing the inconsiderate from parking on the sidewalk. For fewer people to be killed by cars, however, you want transportation infrastructure which does not rely on having fast metal boxes in close proximity to pedestrians (or cyclists, wheelchair users, etc).
Let's say you're trying to hire programmers. DEI could mean going to historically black colleges and women's colleges, and encouraging people there to apply for jobs at your company. This gets you more diverse applicants, from which you pick the best available, because your goal is to hire good programmers.

But what DEI actually means in practice is someone in HR keeping statistics on how many non-white-male programmers you have, and scolding you because you haven't hired enough non-white-males. That kind of DEI leads to non-optimal use of everyone's talent, because you hire non-optimal people for the job openings you have.
Yes, both C and Unix are amazing designs. Far from perfect, but good tools for many jobs. In my opinion, it is now time for Rust to take over. But comparing Rust to C, it took a huge amount of improvement over C to replace C.
it should be written as "The Guardian", not "the Guardian"
Show HN: Search for Recipes by Ingredients
People in general are pretty good at assigning blame - pedestrian hit by car is usually blamed on the car unless the pedestrian was doing something exceptionally stupid - pedestrian hit by train is usually blamed on the pedestrian.

The job of government should be to evaluate and require safety equipment where it makes sense - to protect the innocent and reduce issues. And part of that is recognizing when people are using something regularly “against the law” and fixing the underlying issue, not just make it “more illegal” (for example, people using a railroad bridge to cross a river).
There is always a hint.

Let's say I am an Eagle Scout. I want to write about something I did as an Eagle.

Well, guess, what. I've told you a metric F-ton about myself.
Or secretly install a rootkit onto your machine
> most of the best stuff still comes in

I don’t see why “the best stuff” would be more acceptant to printing than the rest. Actually I’d expect that the best candidates won’t bend over backwards to submit their application, they have choice
There are indeed restrictions on western foreign media.

"Like all foreign news organizations operating in Israel, CNN’s Jerusalem bureau is subject to the rules of the Israel Defense Forces’s censor, which dictates subjects that are off-limits for news organizations to cover, and censors articles it deems unfit or unsafe to print. ... the military censor recently restricted eight subjects, including security cabinet meetings, information about hostages, and reporting on weapons captured by fighters in Gaza. In order to obtain a press pass in Israel, foreign reporters must sign a document agreeing to abide by the dictates of the censor."

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-repo...

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/23/israel-military-idf-medi...
Winning is based on war aims. Israel's were the return of captives and removal of Hamas. It is further along in those aims than it was in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks; that's fairly defined as winning. (Taken to the extreme, Nazi Germany was winning WWII in 1940.)

> the world seeing israel as an illegitimate pariah state

Your other claims are true. This one is not.
for anyone reading and wondering what qatar's intentions are with their media arm, they're the largest foreign donor of US institutions: https://tikva.so/qatar

it's not coincidental that these are where all the protests are, and suddenly college students have access to thousands of $ of camping gear...

they're also aggressively anti israel/jew: https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-793560

they employ high journalistic standards for everything but israel.
I read your link. To borrow your phrase, I didn't find it persuasive. The paper promises in several places to address the issue of qualia, but never quite gets around to it. Instead it plays the standard linguistic trick that I hear so often: The things we perceive are illusory (though the paper shies away from using that specific word), therefore qualia are an illusion. Once again, this conflates the content of qualia with the existence of qualia.

I find it bizarre that so much energy is devoted to arguing that the content of consciousness is inaccurate, when I've never met a single person who thinks otherwise. Even children understand that their minds can conjure up things that don't exist, and can easily be made to understand that even their day-to-day perceptions are inaccurate. But the vigor with which this argument is pushed makes sense when you realize that the actual goal is to use the ambiguity of the claim "qualia aren't real" (which may refer to either content or existence) to appear to have proven that qualia do not exist while only having to do the work of proving that they are not accurate.

Frankly, I find these conversations immensely frustrating for this exact reason. I go back and forth with someone on the only real issue, which is the existence of qualia. They talk in circles and use this semantic sleight of hand to claim that qualia don't even exist and therefore require no explanation, even as they experience them at that exact moment. When I insist on the issue, they claim that I need to try harder to understand their position, even as they actively avoid honestly engaging with my own. Occasionally I am gullible enough to think "you know, maybe there really is something I just don't get" and I cave in and read their proposed literature, only to be met with the same linguistic trickery.

This is why I use the phrase "thought-terminating cliche". This entire line of argument doesn't even attempt to answer the real question. It makes a big show out of beating a different but similar-sounding question to death, then quickly dodges around the real one while you're dazzled and hopes you don't notice. And this "explanation" is always bookended with a smug "consciousness is just an illusion (you non-materialist simpleton)".

I expect no less going forward, so this conversation has outlived its productivity. Feel free to have the last word if you like.
The materials in running shoes cost under $10, and many people seem to do just fine without them. E.g. I have run two marathons barefoot with fewer problems than when I ran shod. And I'm not genetically blessed.

It's impossible to reconcile my experience, and the experience of so many other barefoot (and minimalist - although I don't recommend it) runners, with the advertising from Hoka and from podiatrists.
In many ways typescript is terrible, but I've been writing it for a long time now and I don't often write bugs in it that get shipped to production. I've never really run into bugs that I could blame on typescript being bad. I just don't do dumb things like comparing strings and numbers. So yeah, it has a bunch of weird foot guns and is just generally not efficient but

1. I can write code that's fast enough to solve the problem.

2. I can write it quickly.

3. I can hire a million people to work on it if I need to.

4. Every single company that releases a service releases a Typescript or Python library first.

Also from personal experience, using 1 language across all environments speeds up development massively. Especially early on in a project when the schemas are not set in stone. If every time you update a table you need to change 4 different files and update all your validation logic you will have a rough time.
Israel lets more aid through now than before the October 7th atrocities. That aid is intercepted by Hamas and does not reach the intended recipients.
Unfortunately, single digit millisecond is quite slow for n-gram language models.

Weighted Finite State Transducers are where they really shine; you tend to want to do massive parallel operations, and you want to do the without being bottle necked on memory access. I think these challenges make this framework challenging to adopt.
If you want a piece of safety equipment to be readily available to every driver, then putting a radio in the boot won't work.

I absolutely think that having an emergency radio is better preparation that relying on your car. However the inclusion requirement makes sense. It is rare that a group of people will be isolated with without a vehicle and ensuring every vehicle has an AM radio is the best way of ensuring everyone has access to one in an emergency.
The things that change aren't the fundamentals.

Meanwhile people still read the papers that came out of Bell Labs in the mid-20th century, boolean logic is boolean logic, exponential time algorithms are slower than polynomial time algorithms for large N, the lambda calculus is still taught, etc.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9655943/

The study above references 4 different studies that indicate that artificial sweeteners can affect glucose tolerance through changes in the microbiota composition:

- https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13793

(free PDF here: https://d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/44081512/Artificial_Sw... )

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6363527/

- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00919-9

- https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00994-1

The article also references 4 studies that indicate that artificial sweeteners have side effects in terms of obesity, cardiovascular disease, and mortality.

- https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj-2022-071204

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6538252/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9506029/

- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8946744/
Knowing how something is done can be quite different from knowing all that it really takes to make it happen.
It'd be interesting to benchmark this on texts from different languages. English text will be very friendly to the branch predictor because it's all 1-byte codepoints. I think a language dominated by either 2-byte or 3-byte codepoints would be as well, mixing codepoint lengths is what would trip things up.